Ceramic Tech Today

Ceramatec’s home power storage

By / September 1, 2009

Without a way to store their power, no number of solar panels will free a home from the electrical grid. The Daily Herald reports that researchers at Utah-based Ceramatec have…

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Research underway to improve wind, solar energy storage

By / August 31, 2009

The latest effort to store clean power from wind and solar energy resources comes from California, where a leading utility is hoping to put emerging technology to work. A report…

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Solar power comes to Cairo’s slums

By / August 31, 2009

The National Geographic News has an interesting story about a project in Cairo, Egypt, that is successfully introducing solar power (albeit on a small scale) in several poor areas of…

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Monday materials music

By / August 31, 2009

Now get to work!

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Friday federal funding facts

By / August 29, 2009

The administration was a little slow in posting their updates yesterday, so that’s why there wasn’t a post about this on Friday. We still below $.5 billion in payouts from…

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Researchers find new clues for high-temp superconductivity

By / August 28, 2009

For a while now, some scientists have thought that conditions necessary for superconductivity at higher temperatures exist. Now, a paper published in Science adds some fuel to their argument. It…

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Chemical reaction weakening concrete bridges

By / August 27, 2009

The Houston Chronicle reports that the insides of some bridges and other concrete structures in the state, and elsewhere in the region, are turning to gel, and the culprit is…

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NIST develops low-cost, ultra-sensitive infrared spectrometer

By / August 27, 2009

The good folks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology say they have a new method for measuring light in the near-infrared range that is highly sensitive (in the…

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Spanish tiles go solar

By / August 26, 2009

With this August heat we have solar on the mind! Here is another interesting advancement in solar cell technology, brought to us from Re-Nest.com. SRS Energy claims to have the…

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Video of the week – Aldo Boccaccini on the vitrification of hazardous wastes, bioglass and electrophoretic deposition

By / August 26, 2009

Aldo Boccaccini is a professor in materials science at Imperial College, U.K. and a member of the London Center for Nanotechnology, a joint project between Imperial College and University College,…

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